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Memorandum

U.S. Department
of Transportation
Federal Aviation
Administration

ARTCC - Indianapolis, IN

Subject: INFORMATION : Partial Transcript; Aircraft Accident; Date: December 3, 2001

AAL77; Washington, DC; September 11, 2001

From: Indianapolis ARTCC

Reply to

Attn, of:

To: Aircraft Accident File ZDC-ARTCC-2 12

T his transcription covers the Indianapolis ARTCC Henderson Sector Radar position for the
time period from September 11, 2001, 1234 UTC to September 11, 2001, 1309 UTC.

Agencies Making Transmissions Abbreviations

Indianapolis ARTCC Henderson Sector Radar Position HNN R

Washington ARTCC Moorefield Sector MOR

American Airlines Inc. Flight 77 AAL77

Indianapolis ARTCC Dacos Sector Radar Position DAC R

American Airlines Inc. Flight 2493 AAL2493

I hereby certify that the following is a true transcription of the recorded conversations
pertaining to the subject aircraft accident involving AAL77:

Gu#

Arnold E. Miller

Quality Assurance Support Specialist
Indianapolis ARTCC

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1235

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1239:22 HNN R moorefield on the ninety stop american seventy seven at thirty
three please i’ll point him out

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1239:25

1239:50

1239:54

1239:55

1240

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1240:15

1240:19

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1243:51

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1250:47

MOR thirty three t v

MOR so who wants to talk to american seventy seven bobcat or

henderson

HNN R henderson

MOR henderson t v

AAL77 center american seventy seven with you level three three zero

HNN R american seventy seven indy center roger squawk — three seven

four three

AAL77 three seven four three american seventy seven

HNN R american seventy seven climb and maintain flight level three
five zero

AAL77 thirty three for three five oh american seventy seven

HNN R american seventy seven turn ten degrees to the right vectors for
traffic

AAL77 ten right american seventy seven

HNN R american seventy seven cleared direct um falmouth

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1250:51

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AAL77 uh direct falmouth american seventy seven thank you

HNN R american seventy seven indy

HNN R american seventy seven indy

HNN R american seventy seven american indy

HNN R american seventy seven american indy radio check how do you

read

HNN R american seventy seven american radio check how do you read

HNN R override beeping

DAC R this is uh — dacos

HNN R this is uh henderson american seventy seven i don’t know what
happened to him i’m trying to reach somebody look look like he
turn took a turn to the south and now i’m uh i don’t know what
altitude he’s at or what he’s doing last (unintelligible) ah
headin towards falmouth at thirty five

DAC R well just let me know

HNN R okay i’ll try to get a hold of him thanks

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1258:16 HNN R american seventy seven indy radio check how do you read

1258:41 HNNR american ah seventy seven ah indy center how do you read

1258:5 1 HNN R american seventy seven indy radio check how do you read

1259

1259:38 HNNR override beeping

1259:43 DAC R dacos

1259:44 HNNR this is henderson still haven’t got american seventy seven uh

last he was at thirty five going to falmouth so i don’t know
where he is out there anywhere yet so i’m still trying to get a
hold of him we contact the company

1259:53 DAC R okay

1259:54 HNNR okay

1259:55 DAC R thanks

1300

1300:25 HNNR american seventy seven indy

1 300:28 AAL2493 center american ah twenty four ninety three

1 300:3 1 HNN R american twenty four ninety three go ahead

1300:33 AAL2493 yeah we uh sent a message to dispatch to have him come up on

twenty twenty seven is that what you want em to do

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1300:37 HNNR yeah we had em on west side of our airspace and they went
into coast and uh don’t have a track on em and now he’s not
talking to me so we don’t know exactly what happened to him
we’re trying to get a hold of him we also contacted your
company so thanks for the help

1300:48

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AAL2493 alright

HNN R american seventy seven indy

End of Transcript